Office

It appears that the electricity is working...did the phone work too?

Interesting. The old power plant gets its power from somewhere else. That means, at some point before the plant shut down, they decided to wire it to take power not from the plant itself. Yet, since the plant was making power at that time, why get it from elsewhere?

Alternately, why wire the plant up for power after it's been abandoned?

I love how these people blaze and leave it all behind. It almost looks like they were in the middle of a meeting and then disappeared. Motts, any soap dispenser lights anywhere in the building?

If you havent read Stephen King's Dark Tower books this will mean nothing, but this reminds me of the abandoned offices beneath the Dogon.

I guess these chairs arn't "lonely" creepy to see the lights working!!! another great pic, Mr. Motts!! ;-)

I always find it rather spooky to see an abandoned building where the lights are still working in some places. Very creepy, if you ask me.

Looks like it is still in use? Or did they just leave it the way it was?

this is totally amazing. It looks like everyone stepped out for a moment for lunch or something.

Stepped out for lunch a while ago, And never returned...... very "Dawn of the Dead" (not the crappy re-make)

haha i thought shaun of the dead was funny!

The computer in this office still works

they left in a hurry freddy must been near

Wow - this is amazing. I have to say that if I was wandering around an abandoned building and found a room with all the lights on and a computer ready to go, I'd probably get the hell out, in case someone came back...

How weird that this is still lit up as if for a normal working day. I can understand battery-powered emergency exit markers staying lit years after the building crumbles around them, even fluorescent tubes still connected to a supply in a still-inhabited hospital campus, but this is just too weird for words.

How long has the building been derelict?

This is just inexplicably creepy how it looks like a meeting just adjourned no less than 5 minutes ago...

Motts, did you turn the lights on? Or were they *on*? *shudder* I'd be scared to test light switches cause I'm always thinking they be connected with some elaborate alarm system or that the building would crumble around me...

Wow, do you think someone was in there shortly before you? I mean, lights have to burn out eventually...and leaving them on isn't all too bright, either...I'd think it could be a fire hazard.

About the lights being on -- Plants don't directly use the power they generate to operate... itself. They're all tied into a "grid." Suppose one of the plants comes offline for maintenance, they still need electricity to perform whatever maintenance, and to get back up and running. They use power from the grid just like your house, or anywhere else does.

I heard the CD player in the computer works as well RD haha ;-)


haha yes yes

I would have liked to have seen what was on the board and the papers. The snapshops of human time frozen, while the rest of the building is slowly reclaimed.

First of all, I wuold have sat right down at the computer....After making sure we didn't have any "company"....(weird about those lights...) It would be interesting to find what was left behind THERE.....

Maybe the power works because they never left.

Looking at the very bad condition of the carpet i think this office is truly abadoned. It is strange they left everything in the office in perfect order.

scury scury quick get out grab wat u can leave the lights on who cares..i bet thats wat they said....this is amazing pic everything is intact

to me it looks like they wher working hard then just rushed out ... makes you wonder what makes people rush away from some place and never return ? any comments email me at justicedreams24@aol.com

I work for a supply company, those chairs sell for $180.00 each! It is strange how these things are left behind and not auctioned off some where...

Where's the computer at anyway?

could it be the whole thing is hooked up to a timer that turns light on and off at certain periods so that hobo's and such think its still inhabited?

I think people were exploring shortly before this picture was taken and simply forgot about the lights

That is uber creepy..I mean even creepier than some of the deep dark places you have photographed. For some reason it has that 28 days later feel to it. I would done some Resident Evil style investigating.

I wouldn't necessarily consider this facility abandoned. Sure the coal and oil-powered generating units aren't operational but the local power company still operates combustion turbine units on-site and also has transformers. Anyway, nice photos and a cool look at our industrial history.

I'm with Tom, some of the power in the place (lights) may be on a timer. It could just be a security thing as well to make people think someone is still keeping an eye on the place, but who knows.

This office is grungy.

Look at that air conditioner on the wall. It looks like it will crumble at any moment.

There is still writing on the white board. These people left in a hurry.

Those purple chairs are so ugly. The seating portion of those chairs are very short for the buttocks and legs of a human body.

The pinhead bosses who worked in this room were probably mean and angry people all the time. I am sure that they lacked all kinds of imagination. I can just see it now: One of the workers has a new idea to make things better and they getted LAUGHED right out of the office.

What a scummy office to work in or have to be around for any reason what - so - ever.

I would avoid that office like the plague.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

It really reminds of Steven King's The Stand. Just yesterday everyone was working hard at their jobs and then the next day no one ever comes back.

mom, you to go through my room all the time, but now my office... DAMN YOU!!

Dang, this office is more moden than mine, and tider.

Any body notice the PC keyboard tucked under the desk on the left?

looks a little homely...wonder what those newspapers in the corner date back to?

This picture really threw me for a loop. It's such a stark contrast to the rest of the series so far. It looks so modern compared to the rest of the building.

I work for an Office Supplier, selling furniture. That desk sells for about $800 new, the chairs are $200, the 3 drawer file cabinet goes for $350, the storage cabinet is around $300, and the white board + stand is about $400. Insane. everyone was probably locked out the morning of the layoff and given the bird.

As for the plant, the office is still on the grid, and has to stay on. It would cost the county too much to take it off the grid completely.

Flying dutch Powerplant

did they just have an argument and leave after a tiff ?

This is one place I would have definitely look at what was left. Papers, notes, even booting up the computer to see what was on it. Cool - looks like everyone went out for a cigarette and didn't come back. Very eerie.

if everything still works and everything's fine, then it couldn't have been abandoned for too long

Thats weird.

We had those EXACT desks and storage units at my old office, and most of those were just put in new. Can't have been abandoned for long.

that is just strange, looks like the where there talking and then just left? werid

Looks like a regular friday afternoon at the off when everyone has left for the weekend and the cleaners haven't gotten to that area yet...but it does remind you of something out of a stephen king novel very erie in it's calmness like a moment lost in time or forgot...and yes I do security and I've seen those chairs at some buildings I've worked at very erie indeed

most ofton power plants are hooked up on a diffrent power grid so that if there is a black out in the local area the plant is not affected by the outage. They do this so that plant stays in complete control of its operations and turbines as well as control the turbines from getting damaged if there is a complete shut down or loss of power.

i concur with the people who said that this photograph has a likeness to a Stephen King novel or an Romero zombie movie.

It's the Mary Celeste of powerplant offices.

I worked at a Nuclear Power Station for 12 years. All power plants are wired up both to the grid to feed power and also wired up separately to receive power when not on line (operating). Now you know folks.